Flattr adds support for funding in Bitcoin

Swedish startup Flattr , which offers an ‘online tipjar’ service, has announced it has added partial support for Bitcoin: you can now fund your account with the virtual currency. Furthermore, the company is considering adding the option to withdraw in Bitcoins too, but it first wants to gauge its community’s desire for the feature on Twitter . To fund your Flattr account with Bitcoin, head to the Add funds page and choose Bitcoin. “The Bitcoin payments are handled by awesome Danish Startup BIPS , located in Copenhagen, just 30 minutes from Malmö, where we are,” Flattr says. For those who don’t know, Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, currently the most-widely used alternative to common forms of money. Because it has no central issuer, it has no single authority and thus no way to lock out certain users (or countries) out of the network. Bitcoin can be used to pay...